No Exceptionalism

I responded to the constant “We are better than this” with:

WE ARE NOT!

The point is America’s false narrative that we are somehow exceptional is extreme bullshit. We are the exceptional all right in our history of brutality.

If you take slavery and genocide of indigenous peoples there simply is no exceptionalism.

Trump is considered an anomaly by many. Is he?

How about Nixon. Or Wilson.  Hoover?  And Pierce?

Our Constitution that we will celebrate in a few days, has a slave catching provision still in it!  Only abolishing slavery abolished it!

And those slaves built an economy that led the world and the reward?  Perpetual poverty!

And what other exceptional nation on the planet elects a President who can literally end all life on earth with a slavery era provision in the “exceptional Constitution” that elects him with 3 million less votes!???  And we celebrate that and our Independence by getting drunk and blowing up things. (See Vietnam below).

And the Supreme Court that just ruled keeping certain religions out was ok while their ancestors migrated to America to avoid religious prosecution.

Good law?  Plessy v Ferguson or Dred Scott. Or the hundreds of gay bashing legislation of the past. 40 years?  And a woman will soon need a coat hanger to abort a fetus, in a dark alley, because a religious zealot is pro life, who owns an arsenal of assault weapons and cheers when black kids are shot?

Interracial marriage was finally ruled legal by the Supremes in what, 1947?  Native American women could not give birth in a California Hospital until 1927. They could not vote until 1925!  They were THE original Americans!

The reason we hear exceptionalism is White privilege that gives a huge advantage to the color of a child’s skin over all else.

We are more segregated now than in 1952.

And Vietnam?   This country determined success in that war with a body count, the same approach used in the Philippine Insurrection and the Indian Wars.   But today, the Red Wave we were promised would engulf us, sees Televisions, furniture and baseball caps made in Vietnam that proclaims Make  America Great Again. 55,000 died so we could buy that cap?

Racist homophobia has elected a ruling elite of rich pampered white people to a permanent majority even though they are not.   Mixed race people vote for racist leaders whose parents lynched their parents. What madness is this?

And white seniors are right now killing themselves at a record pace with overweight and opioids, but their last wish is that police shoot another black kid.

And guns we all need assault rifles while schools; 1st graders are gunned down by 2nd Amendment madness.

Oh and right now, I MEAN NOW, the most expensive health care system on earth has an infant mortality rate that is surpassed by third world nations in a negative way. And what about Homelessness?  I have friends who with a straight face call homelessness a life style decision. Honestly, living in a gutter is a desired life style?

That right there is the hatred, the smugness of privilege that makes this country a hell hole for many!

Oh and the gasoline economy has again kicked into overdrive using up fossil fuels so our grandchildren will starve to death. Nobody I mean nobody in this shining city on the hill dared mention that we are running out of gas.

The fact is US preeminent standing after WWII wasn’t because of our successes,it was because the rest of the world was destroyed!  We just survived by dropping a radioactive firestorm on the “Japs”. Dropping it on white people was ruled out!  We had the thing and could of used on another practitioner of genocide but....well Germans were white!

Trump is NOT AN EXCEPTION!  TRUMP IS AMERICA AND WE NEED TO ADMIT IT!

But my ancestors in their dying breaths foretold a Reckoning. A time of consequence, of accounting for the brutality.  And it is coming every time you rev up that engine!